Muse, for MAEC and Cortona on the move 2024
Collaboration with Giulia Parlato
'Muse' is a collaboration between Giulia Parlato and Giovanna Petrocchi, commissioned by Cortona on the Move and the MAEC Museum in Cortona. The project is a visual investigation of the representation of women from antiquity to the present day. The photographs, composed of collages, are the result of a fusion between archive material and shots taken inside the museum. The intention is to create a bridge between past and present, in which exhibits from different eras and portraits of women linked to the museum meet in a visual dialogue.
The layering created within the collages is intended as a figurative reminder of the fragmentary and pluralistic nature of historical narratives, and the invitation is to think of the museum as a place of discovery and unexpected connections.The ancient 18th-century collections of the Accademia Etrusca are superimposed on contemporary portraits, Egyptian artefacts sit alongside archive slides, generating an anachronistic all-female inventory.
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Collateral Histories 2020
Collaboration with Giulia Parlato for Art Licks Magazine Issue 25
With the juxtaposition of photographs, 3D printed objects,collages and photomontages we explored the migration of material culture, and that transitional period when the transformation of the animal into the object occurs.
We contemplated the process of evolution, both natural and cultural: from the material and constitutive animal bone, to the immaterial and symbolic human concept. The result is a series of odd artefacts, where the man-made and the organic are assembled into new, uncanny objects. By misplacing and mixing bones, sea creatures and fossils, we played with fragmented scenes from the South of Europe to build up a sort of monstrous personal collection. With this collaboration, we aimed to raise questions around the museum space’s possibilities, which are not only about remembering but also about reimagining the past.
Collaboration with Giulia Parlato
'Muse' is a collaboration between Giulia Parlato and Giovanna Petrocchi, commissioned by Cortona on the Move and the MAEC Museum in Cortona. The project is a visual investigation of the representation of women from antiquity to the present day. The photographs, composed of collages, are the result of a fusion between archive material and shots taken inside the museum. The intention is to create a bridge between past and present, in which exhibits from different eras and portraits of women linked to the museum meet in a visual dialogue.
The layering created within the collages is intended as a figurative reminder of the fragmentary and pluralistic nature of historical narratives, and the invitation is to think of the museum as a place of discovery and unexpected connections.The ancient 18th-century collections of the Accademia Etrusca are superimposed on contemporary portraits, Egyptian artefacts sit alongside archive slides, generating an anachronistic all-female inventory.
Collateral Histories 2020
Collaboration with Giulia Parlato for Art Licks Magazine Issue 25
With the juxtaposition of photographs, 3D printed objects,collages and photomontages we explored the migration of material culture, and that transitional period when the transformation of the animal into the object occurs.
We contemplated the process of evolution, both natural and cultural: from the material and constitutive animal bone, to the immaterial and symbolic human concept. The result is a series of odd artefacts, where the man-made and the organic are assembled into new, uncanny objects. By misplacing and mixing bones, sea creatures and fossils, we played with fragmented scenes from the South of Europe to build up a sort of monstrous personal collection. With this collaboration, we aimed to raise questions around the museum space’s possibilities, which are not only about remembering but also about reimagining the past.
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